Following the launch of the metal-clad Galaxy A5 in China last month, Samsung is getting ready to unveil the Galaxy A7 in the country. The device was seen undergoing certification at TENAA – China's equivalent of the FCC – which revealed a thickness of just 6.3 mm.

Other specs suggest that the Galaxy A7 will be the high-end model in the Galaxy A series, featuring a 5.5-inch full-HD display, 1.5 GHz eight-core 64-bit Snapdragon 615 SoC, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB internal memory, 12 MP camera at the back and a 5 MP shooter up front.

The Galaxy A7 is expected to make its debut in China shortly, and will possibly make its way to international markets soon after.

This may be nitpicking a bit, but I really wish they'd switch up the design of the camera at least! The same old square camera is getting really boring and ugly, in my opinion. Try a flush circular camera Samsung! Could only help the design of the phone in my opinion. I know some jackass will respond "so don't buy it" but that's really not the point.

Battery? I don't get the phone makers with their obsession to make the phone as thin as possible. People care more about the battery life. I wouldn't mind smartphone 1cm thick if it would give me few days of juice.

Thin is good, but we hit the point of diminishing returns with regard to thinness years ago. I think the last time I looked at a phone and thought that its thinness was really a selling point over the competition was maybe the iPhone 4. Anything thinner than that is just unnecessary if it's at the expense of battery capacity.

I hate to use this as an example, but if the iphone 6+ for instance can be so thin and still have such great battery life (apparently it does) then there will be plenty more where that came from in the industry.

Then again, it's bezels are so fat, it's a joke. Apple sacrificed overall form factor for thinness. A year from now many smartphones will be razor thin and more compact I'm sure.

Exactly. It's a lot easier to shave a mm or two off of the thickness without sacrificing much battery capacity when the device's surface area is enormous. Unfortunately, devices the size of the Note series, iPhone 6+, etc just don't appeal to me at all.